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Public Health
- Working for a non-profit HIV/AIDS program, coordinating peer-counseling programs to promote health education and voluntary testing in a small village outside Mnarani.
- Working for a clinic run by the African Medical Research Foundation that provides basic health services to the Maasai community.
- Working with nurses on HIV/AIDS issues among under-privileged youth and women, by teaching youth about reproductive health and teaching mothers about childcare and healthy living.
Women's Issues
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Researching female genital mutilation and increasing awareness of the issue.
Small Business Development
- Assisting in a center that tries to alleviate poverty by training youth on sustainable use of available natural resources and helps them to set up small enterprises.
- Marketing the products of a vocational training center, such as pottery and beadwork, to shops in Nairobi.
- Working for a non-profit's micro-credit program to develop promotional materials and assess the utilization of the loans given to the community health workers in Nyanza.
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Working to produce and market products for a small flour-making factory.
Environmental Protection
- Developing a nature trail near a lake area with the World Wide Fund for Nature.
- Working at a sanctuary with a public organization to help solve the human-elephant conflict.
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Studying the costs, disease transmission and genetic issues surrounding the translocation of rhinos and giraffes.
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Educating students about wildlife and environmental conservation.
Education
- Working as an assistant in an orphanage nursery school for HIV/AIDS infected and affected children.
- Working with the administration at a school for Maasai girls who have been rescued from early marriages to create promotional materials and to teach computer lessons to students and staff.
- Educating women about their rights through an indigenous non-profit organization fighting for the rights and interests of the Ogiek hunter and gatherer community.
- Caring for children in a home for orphaned, destitute and former street children and also helping with the school at the home that has very limited resources.
Sustainable Agriculture
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Organizing seminars on new agricultural techniques for a sustainable agricultural training center.
Social Services
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Studying the psychological well-being of the Ugandans living in a United Nations refuge camp.
Community Organizing
- Working with a girls club and women's groups to evaluate their progress in using credit from programs like Action Aid Kenya.
- Working with the HIV/AIDS social workers to help affected families with farm work and repairing their houses.
- Teaching Internet access classes at a community resource center that brings awareness to the HIV/AIDS reality.
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Last modified on May 20, 2008 |